The seemingly incongruous title is a fitting one for writer/director Tamar Simon Hoff's elegy about an Irish family's scars, secrets and shared experiences contrarily recalled. Malcolm McDowell delivers a typically stellar, powerfully understated, performance. The death of patriarch Enda Doyle, a respected college librarian and poet, reunites a combustible Irish family. While waiting for their guests at the wake, the family matriarch Moya, brooding eldest daughter Catherine, stuck in the middle Medbh and angry-at-the-world Johnny - watch Enda's videotaped memoirs, an experience that both opens new wounds and helps to heal old ones. Well written and acted, alternately lyrical and profane, this is a touching, funny and ultimately cathartic film, simply yet beautifully crafted, about the inextricable bond of family. ~ Synopsis by the AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival

Principal Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Olivia Tracey, Heather Juergensen, Max Beesley, Greg Ellis, Susan Lynch, Catherine Farrell, Sean Lawlor, Robert Easton, Aubrey Morris

Producers: Tamar Simon Hoffs, Gail Wager Stayden, Georganne Aldrich Heller, Alfred Sapse
Editor: Dathai Keene
Cinematographer: Nancy Schreiber

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